Garment-pin



(No Model.)

J. McK. SBGORD.

GARMENT PIN.

No. 580,228. Patented Apr. 6, 1897.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JENNIE MOKINLEY SECORD, OF ROTTERDAM JUNCTION, NEWV YORK.

GARM ENT-PIN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 580,228, dated April 6, 1897.

Application filed July 20, 1896'.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ENNIE .MOKINLEY SE- CORD, of Rotterdam Junction, in the county of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Pin, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to pins for fastening hats or bonnets to the head of the wearer, or it may be used as a shawl-pin or as a fastening for other articles of apparel; and the ob ject is to provide a pin that may be easily attached to or detached from a garmentand in which the pin-point will be covered or protected when. in place and thus prevent accidental scratching.

I will describe a garment-pin embodying my invention, and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of a second form of the construction, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view thereof.

1 designates a pin of any suitable length, having a head 2 rigidly secured to one end. This head may be ornamented as desired. It is shown in the form of a ring with divergent bars 3, which provide keepers for an elastic cord 4:. As the ends of the bars are widely separated at the point where they are engaged by the cord the cord-sections will be held away from the pin, so that when the pin is placed through a hat the cord will engage the hat at points laterally of the axis of the pin and thus to a considerable degree prevent the hat from tilting on the pin as an aXis.

The ends of the cord at are secured to a pinpoint keeper 5, here shown in the form of a block having a socket 6 formed in it, in which the pin point is designed to engage. This socket preferably has a flaring or enlarged mouth, so that the pin may be easily directed to it. In Fig. 1 I have shown the ends of the elastic cord as secured in atransverse hole in the keeper, but in Figs. 2 and 3 I have shown the keeper as provided at its Serial No. 599,817. (No model.)

top, rearward of the socket, with a thin strip of metal 7, designed to be turned over and clamped upon the ends of the cord. In either construction the cord is practically endless. It is obvious, however, that the ends of the cord may be sewed or otherwise secured together. Vt ith the form of the invention shown in Figs. 2 and 3 I propose to employ a head like that shown in Fig. 1.

In use, after pushing the pin through the article to be fastened, the pin-point keeper may be placed in position by slightly stretching the cord 4.

It willbe seen that a pin embodying my invention is very simple, yet strong in construction, and that the elastic cord will allow for a considerable latitude in use, and also that the elastic serves not only as the best form of attachment for the shield, but that it will permit further ornamentation by holding in place (strung upon it) metallic or other kind of ornaments.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A garment-pin having a pin proper, a ring-like head for the pin, the head having two bars extending upwardly from its lower portion and converging to each other at the upper portion of the head, an elastic band passed around the bars at their lower portions and having its runs spread from each other by said bars, and a block held by the elastic band and having a recess receiving the point of the pin proper, substantially as described.

2. A garment-pin having a pin proper and a head for the pin proper, an elastic band connected to the head, a block having an orifice receiving the point of the pin proper, and a strip secured to the block and having one edge tubulated at the side of the block which side has the orifice, such tubulated edge receiving the elastic band, substantially as described.

J ENNIE MOKINLEY SECORD.

Witnesses:

F. W. FAIR-MAN, ELWIN J. HASKINS. 

